#miles

The first time I jumped from a plane, I screamed like a woman. I was two miles up and you could hear me clear as day. Now I love it. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#could #day #first #first time #hear

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#am #every #every time #fragment #i

In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air. ↗

— Jackie Stewart

#i #miles #travelled #year

I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I'd be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out. ↗

— George Strait

#away #coming #enjoy #felt #i

I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school. ↗

— Bonnie Hunt

#bad days #day #days #deserve #eat

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#about #before #go #i #miles

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#brave #distress #gathers #grows #man

I have found that the people who shout their opinion the loudest are usually the ones most insecure in their position. I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone. It's not that there wasn't anything to say. It's that there was too much and words were poor substitutes for our feelings. But Korczak's greatest legacy is not a public one, the massive stone mountain that he conquered, but the mountain he first conquered in himself-a mountain that he climbed alone-in this we can all empathize. (about the sculptor of Crazy Horse) ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#beauty

Whever I came into the room, she'd light up, so happy to see me. No one ever in the course of my entire life was ever as happy to see me as she was. Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#love #smiles #life

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps. ↗

— John Green

#faith